Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G headed to T-Mobile September 19th

The Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G has been in the news for a while, but we now finally have an official launch date to look forward to. T-Mobile has announced it’d be launching September 19th. The QWERTY-enabled slider will cost $150 after a $50 mail-in rebate.

The mid-range device will launch with Ice Cream Sandwich, but beyond the operating system it’ll sport a whole host of other great specs. It has a 4 inch Super AMOLED display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and more. I’d say this will be one of the more desirable devices to launch on Magenta this year. Anyone springing for it?

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No NFC is a major bummer. With it this would be a no-brainer, now I have to think about it.

http://twitter.com/adnanakb Adnan A

A few years from now, a phone without NFC would be ridiculous. Right now, it’s just not widely used enough to warrant it being in every phone. I’m pretty sure you’ll go the 2 years without even noticing or caring about the lack of NFC. It’s sure been that way so far with my One S.

ari_free

We have to build for the future but right now I can’t do anything with NFC even if my phone had it.

hodayathink

As someone who fancies himself a developer, I’d like to at least have it to play around with.

And if the new iPhone actually does have NFC when it comes out later this week/next week, it’ll take a lot less than 2 years for NFC to take off.

Edit: Also, my contract doesn’t run out until November, and one of the things I liked about this phone is because it was mid-range, it was likely to be offered in one of those “Get a 4G phone for free” deals by the time November/December/January comes around if it’s released in September.

http://about.me/mttsndrs Matt Saunders

Actually it does have NFC. I’ve seen the NFC antenna on the FCC documents.

Alejandro

That’s a captivate Glide. Looks like Samsung is cleaning out there extra stock.

Martin

Have you looked at the Glide for more than a second? This phone might be similar – because it also has a qwerty keyboard – but that’s about it…!